Two art restorers were putting the final touches on a months-long restoration of the tomb of Pope Urban VIII, who in 1626 ...

Bishop Sobilo, who – like Cardinal Krajewski – is Polish, and drove one of the ambulances to Ukraine, told OSV News that “the ...

The question that now holds sway in the Vatican is: when will the next papal surprise occur? Many expect it could happen as ...

He stayed there during the 2013 papal election but never left ... to speak and to raise his arm to give people his blessing. He also seemed to have difficulty breathing. As he was driven back to the ...

Pope Francis made an unplanned visit to St Peter's Basilica in a wheelchair with an oxygen tube, wearing casual attire. He ...

Pope Francis made a surprise public appearance on Sunday as he mingled with crowds at the Vatican just two weeks after ...

The Vatican said he was participating in the celebration of the Mass with other priests in the 10th-floor papal apartment in the Gemelli hospital ... their presence in the traditional Sunday blessing.

The papal blessing is protecting us ... On April 9 the cardinal started to make his way home, to Rome, through Lviv. Vatican, Vatican News ...

Yet the Jesuit spent Sunday morning blessing the masses gathered on the ... "He's doing better, that's clear, and he wants that to be seen," a Vatican source told AFP on condition of anonymity.